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J. H. BARLOW.

CARTRIDGE IMPLEMENT.

N0.309,681. Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

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CARTRIDGE IMPLEMENT.

EPBCIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,681, dated December 23, 1884.

Application filed June 26, 1884.

To rtZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. BARLOW, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of Xew Haven and State of Connecticut, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Cartridge Implements, of which the following is a specifica tion, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation of the improved cartridge implement, a portion of which was broken away to facilitate placing within the margin. Fig. 2 is a top view of the lever A in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached view fully explained hereinafter. I

This invention relates to ii'nproven'icnts in an implement or tool used for reloading metallic centrallire cartridges, and is an improvement upon Letters Patent No. 291,955, granted to me lliarch ill, 1884-.

The object of this invention is to provide a cartridge implement which shall enable the operations of reducing the cartridge-smells and compressing the loaded cartridge to be performed with greater ease and rapidity, which shall also provide a means for swaging the bullets to a uniform size; and to this end it consists of two crossed levers pivoted together and adapted to open, so that the inside surfaces of the same shall present a right angle, said levers being provided with suitable chambers located upon opposite sides of the pivotal. joint, whereby they are adapted to perform their respective functions when the levers are being closed together.

It consists, further, of a pair of pivotal lovers provided with a device for swaging the balls to a uniform size.

provided with a semicircular recess, a, formlevers A and. B operate.

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ing a seat for the shell 2' when the primer 71 is being seated by the pin a.

The circular aperture f in the lever A, the internal diameter of which must correspond exactly with the desired diameter of the bullet, in conjunction with the oscillating plunger (I, located upon the lever B, forms a very convenient device for swaging the bullets to a uniform diametcra very desirable feature in accurate ammunition which cannot be at tained by an ordinary bullet mold, as the metal does not always contract alike, thereby making the bullets of irregular shape and size.

As it requires a great expenditure of n1uscular effort to perform some of the operations attendant upon reloading these cartridges, it is very desirable to arrange the chambers as closcl y as possible to the axis upon which the that the operations be performed while the levers A and B are being closed together, which gives the operator great advantage in applying the necessary power. Therefore I have arranged in a novel manner the shellrcducing chamber 1) and loading-chamberc upon opposite sides of the axial joint of the levers A and B, as shown in the drawings.

While I have represented the chambers b and c as separate detachable pieces from the lever A, yet it would be possible for them to be integral therewith. Neither do I confine myself to the location of the chambers b and 0 upon the same lever, as shown, itbeing possible to arrange one in each lever, in which case the projecting ends of the chambers would be on the same side of the implement and come in contact with each other in the act of opening the levers, thereby obstructing the free use of the tool.

Having described my invention sufficiently to enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A cartridgereloading implement consisting of the two crossed levers A and B, adapted to operate upon the fulcrum a, the lever A being provided with ashell-reducing chamber, b, and loading-chamber c, forming integral parts thereof or constructed of detachable pieces, as shown, and located upon opposite sides of the fulcrum a also adapted It is also desirable to operate in conjunction with the lever B to (lie, f, opposite to said plunger (1 in the other perform their respective operations when the lever, substantially as and for the purpose clelevers A and B are being closed together, subscribed. stantially as and for the purpose described. In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in 5 2. A eartridge-reloading implement conpresenee of two witnesses. f

sisting of the two lovers A and B pivoted to T V r operate upon the fulcrum a, said 1evers hav- JOHB BARLO ing suitable loading-chambers, I) and a, one of Vitnesses: said pivotal levers having a plunger, (1, ar- ROBERT F. MITCHELL, 1o ranged and adapted to enter a bullet-sizing LoUIs S. DAY. 

